doing the not doing

You, you are a surprise
I can't believe there is noone to ask you any of the questions
that somebody thinks are probably the most important parts
We didn't know what we were doing except that we were doing it
and maybe, at one time we weren't entirely sure we would end up disappointed
So, we were, in a word, doing alright

There were so many people to meet today
he explained that sometimes he speaks and he doesn't know why
how if you asked him again he wouldn't remember
That part about everything adding up to nothing, well,
we're almost entirely fairly sure that that was shitty to say
and in the end, we think he might be wrong
(about some parts, anyway)

It's important, essential even
he said he can't think of anything more than once
because everytime we remember, it falls more and more apart
until we're left with feelings we can't sit or even stand beside anymore
This is science, and we can prove you never got over anything
except obcession, accept obcession is the quickest way to forget

So, some body believes in something
We get jealous, and curious, and cynical, and heartbroken
He starts and stops, and starts and stops, and starts and stops, and
Then we think this might be getting a bit ridiculous,
and won't someone just say something or just do anything, just to see
In unison then, we whisper the words, "Oh, ok, i see."

for the day

"i do one thing and it matters not a jot if i do the other." ~john wilmot, the libertine

"Modern artists are always putting us at the end of something rather than possibly near the beginning - how many 'post' can we be?

Abstraction has been less a search for the ultimately meaningful than a recurrent push for the temporarily meaningless...... generated precisely from those things that make us individually different and separate - freedom and individualism in the creation of art is an irritant, like so many bits of sand in our shell, which we can choose to work or not into those 'pearls'.....
we have a faith not that we will know something finally, but a faith in not knowing, in ignorance, in our being confounded and dumb-founded, a faith fertile with possible meaning and growth
it has been done. it is being done. and because it can be done, it will be done." - kirk varnedoe, pictures of nothing

"we have nothing better to do with our time then to make fun of the things that some people (once) regard(ed) as truth, beauty, or faith - because we simply have none of our own, and no way of creating it." - me, the other day.

i recently had food poisoning, followed by the hives.
i am painting, my hair has grown long, and i think i should quit all of my jobs.